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Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue]
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Andreas Röhler |
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Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue] |
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Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:17:38 +0100 |
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Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2007 16:19 schrieb Richard Stallman:
> (defun my-directory-files ()
> " "
> (interactive)
> (setq case-fold-search nil)
> (message "%s" (directory-files default-directory t "f*"))
> (setq case-fold-search t)
> (message "%s" (directory-files default-directory t "f*"))
> (setq case-fold-search nil)
> (message "%s" (directory-files default-directory t "F*"))
> (setq case-fold-search t)
> (message "%s" (directory-files default-directory t "F*")))
>
> directory-files is supposed to ignore case
> if the system treats file names as case-insensitive.
> It does not obey case-fold-search.
>
> ;;; ==> (MY-PATH/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/. MY-PATH/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/..
> MY-PATH/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/FILE.TXT) [4 times]
>
> What system are you using?
>
Suse 10.2, GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.6) of
2007-12-09
> Perhaps we need something like directory-files which does obey
> case-fold-search. Is that the issue?
>
As said in other thread: it's nothing to
do. Case-sensitivenes is TRT here, case-fold would lead
into never ending trouble because of
multiplied--factorizing--calculations.
Think someone want to partial-complete not just one
~/DIRECTORY/FILE.TXT
but ~/d/d/d/d/f
with maybe several hundred files starting with [dD] in
the directories. Emacs wouldn't return from that task.
Here I see a soure of never ending bug reports.
Better to tell: partial-completion-mode works
case-sensitive. (As is, fine!)
Andreas Röhler
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], (continued)
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/07
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/07
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/08
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/09
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/10
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/10
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/10
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/09
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/10
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/10
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue],
Andreas Röhler <=
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/11
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/12
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/12
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/15
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/16
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Sven Joachim, 2007/12/16